Great! Kudos to you for taking the bull by the horns, and successfully bulldogging that puppy! You're on your way again.
Just step back and consider what you've accomplished. You've just discovered a way to overcome a major hurdle that was preventing you from reaching full remission, (at least, we hope you've found a way to overcome it). And it didn't take you very long to figure it out, even though most GI docs probably wouldn't/couldn't have figured that out in a million years. Good for you.
You're most welcome, of course.
Love,
Tex
Doctor's Awareness of Glulten Intolerance
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Now that's very interesting. I wonder if the same thing happened to me with Benadryl. I stopped taking it a couple of days ago because it stopped helping my BMs, and today I have a couple of small mouth sores. 
Those of us with many intolerances have to be very careful about every new food/chemical we try.
I'm curious about how you tested the ingredients:
Gloria
Those of us with many intolerances have to be very careful about every new food/chemical we try.I'm curious about how you tested the ingredients:
Is your method something you could share? I understand if it's not.Kari wrote:I've learned the technique my acupuncturist uses to test for sensitivities, and just tested it (with the help of my SO), and sure enough I'm reactive
Gloria
You never know what you can do until you have to do it.
Hi Gloria,
The method is a simple muscle response test that anyone can do, and my acupuncturist has encouraged me to do this at home:
Sit in a chair across from the person who is testing you.
Hold your 2 arms out straight in front of you.
Have the "tester" put downward pressure on one of your arms, while you resist by trying to keep your arm up.
The tester, as well as you, should then get a sense of where the "breaking point" is and you can no longer resist the downward pressure.
Once you both have a feel for this, you proceed to testing.
Hold the item you want to test in one of your hands - if it is a liquid or powder place it in a small GLASS (not plastic) jar.
Do the same procedure as above, with the tester putting downward pressure on the hand not holding the test material.
If you are reactive to the substance, it will be much harder to resist the downward pressure, and your arm will give in.
If you are non-reactive, your arm will be as strong as before.
It is a good idea to test anything more than once to double check on your response and convince yourself of the result.
It will take some practice to get the feel for this testing, and I'm sure there are other ways of doing it. My acupuncturist does the testing while I'm lying down and hold one of my arms straight up, while holding the substance in my other hand. She applies pressure against my arm in the air, and it becomes obvious pretty quickly when I have a reaction.
My SO is very patient and helpful, and has become an "expert" tester :). Both of you will develop a feel for this method as you gain experience. Being able to do this at home is extremely useful, not to mention the fact that it's free :).
Another complexity about our "reactiveness", is that we may test negative for individual products, but when combining them with others, we will test positive. So, for instance, if I have made something with several ingredients in it (like stew), I try to remember to test it before eating.
Good luck with this, hope it works for you as well as it does for me.
Love,
Kari
P.S. We jokingly refer to this as the "Hocus Pocus Method", but it is hard to argue with something that "works"
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The method is a simple muscle response test that anyone can do, and my acupuncturist has encouraged me to do this at home:
Sit in a chair across from the person who is testing you.
Hold your 2 arms out straight in front of you.
Have the "tester" put downward pressure on one of your arms, while you resist by trying to keep your arm up.
The tester, as well as you, should then get a sense of where the "breaking point" is and you can no longer resist the downward pressure.
Once you both have a feel for this, you proceed to testing.
Hold the item you want to test in one of your hands - if it is a liquid or powder place it in a small GLASS (not plastic) jar.
Do the same procedure as above, with the tester putting downward pressure on the hand not holding the test material.
If you are reactive to the substance, it will be much harder to resist the downward pressure, and your arm will give in.
If you are non-reactive, your arm will be as strong as before.
It is a good idea to test anything more than once to double check on your response and convince yourself of the result.
It will take some practice to get the feel for this testing, and I'm sure there are other ways of doing it. My acupuncturist does the testing while I'm lying down and hold one of my arms straight up, while holding the substance in my other hand. She applies pressure against my arm in the air, and it becomes obvious pretty quickly when I have a reaction.
My SO is very patient and helpful, and has become an "expert" tester :). Both of you will develop a feel for this method as you gain experience. Being able to do this at home is extremely useful, not to mention the fact that it's free :).
Another complexity about our "reactiveness", is that we may test negative for individual products, but when combining them with others, we will test positive. So, for instance, if I have made something with several ingredients in it (like stew), I try to remember to test it before eating.
Good luck with this, hope it works for you as well as it does for me.
Love,
Kari
P.S. We jokingly refer to this as the "Hocus Pocus Method", but it is hard to argue with something that "works"
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